Monday, September 6, 2010

Calling object inside the loop

We could use to create the object inside or outside of the loop depends upon the behavior of the class.If any class having class member variable then class needs to be inside the loop and that will limit their scope which is good to garbage collect but if class used as Utility class and doesn’t have member class variable then we could declare the class out side of the loop and used inside the loop.Below example shows there are only 32 ms would take to instantiate the object inside the loop but best thing is that it would limit the scope which is good during garbage collection

We could say that Option1 better as it restricts scope of ‘obj’ variable to the for block. From a performance perspective, it might not have any effects in Java, but it might have in lower level compilers. They might put the variable in a register if you do the first.Construction of an object using new is totally different from just declaring it, of course.I think readability is more important than performance and from a readability standpoint, the first code is definitely better.But if you have utility class which doesn’t have member variables we could instantiate once and reuse across the code.

In the below example I am trying to explain the utility class which could be instantiate once and use across the application.